Resources & Stories

Resources

The market for beef labelled “grass-fed” has been growing quickly across the nation, from $17 million in 2012 sales to $272 million in 2016 sales. Adding value through a production...
Vermont has driven growth in the artisanal cheese industry over the last 40 years. Today there are a dozen Vermont goat cheese brands, including the number two national brand of...
All Vermont residents should have access to nutritious local foods they can afford, and Vermont farms should all be profitable. However, many people in our state struggle with the rising...
Consumers are concerned about where their food comes from, yet may not realize that the majority of local grain-based products (e.g., flour, bread, baked goods, beer, and spirits) are not...

Stories

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Two small-scale poultry slaughterhouses—the first of their kind in Vermont—are allowing pastured Vermont chicken to be sold in stores, for the first time in years.
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White walls and stainless steel sinks and industrial-sized freezers and workers in smocks may not form our image of “local food.” But if Vermont agriculture and food production are to remain viable, places like the Mad River Food Hub might become increasingly necessary.
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On a sunny spring day earlier this year, hundreds of brown trout were swimming in their large tanks on Curtis Sjolander’s Mountain Foot Farm in Wheelock.
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Monument Farms Dairy began in 1930 as a home delivery route run by Richard and Marjory James in the Weybridge area.